The committee has received a briefing from Parliament’s lawyers on the process to be followed.

The ad hoc committee set up to make changes to Section 25 of the Constitution has its work cut out for it.

The committee has taken the baton from the Constitutional Review Committee, which held six months of public hearings in 2018.

The Section 74 bill, which informs constitutional amendments, will now be drafted and presented to committee members who will then deliberate on the matter.

Charmaine van der Merwe from Parliament’s legal services says: "The drafted bill will then be presented to the committee, and then the committee will start interrogating it; is the wording what we want, does it [wording] reflect the policy instructions that this committee has given?"